http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/25Jan23-Als-Oasis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve driven across interstate 90 in South Dakota you know you’ll see plenty of signs for Wall Drug, an…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/24Jan23-Als-Oasis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An oasis is often thought to be a lush, fertile spot in the middle of a desert.  The oasis I’ll…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/26Sep22-Fort-Pierre-Karl-Fisher-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For communities near a time zone, it can sometimes be confusing which time one is using when hosting an event. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/23Sep22-Ft-Pierre-Karl-Fisher-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small historic district in Ft. Pierre, SD and you’ll find some buildings with quite a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jul22-KORN-Radio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know your station has hit the big time when it’s call letters are used for a fictional radio station…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/05Jul22-KORN-Radio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The radio business has lots of four-letter words.  The words I’m talking about are the four call letters by which…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/27Jul20-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/26Jun20-Custer-State-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place wnere the buffalo roam and herds of people come to watch them.  I’ll take you to a…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/25Jun20-Custer-State-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The purpose of a new road is usually to get people from one point to another more quickly and safely. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/24Jun20-Custer-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is South Dakota’s first state park but when it was established over a century ago one man was worried…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/16Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with some of the biggest artifacts you’ll find and you can walk right up to just about…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/15Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of an Air Force base you of course think of air planes.  But at this base, the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/28Jun19-Pickler-Mansion-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s known as the “Pink Castle.”  You’d be surprised how many notable figures passed through these halls and the importance…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/06/27Jun19-Pickler-Mansion-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)They built their home so far from civilization, they put stakes in the ground so they could find their way…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/16May19-Rapid-City-Flood.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today it is a peaceful park, with plenty of green open spaces.  Turn back to the clock to the early…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/15May19-Rapid-City-Stratosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Imagine current day astronauts heading down to the local high school to get a couple of football helmets to wear…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/14May19-Rapid-City-Stratosphere-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)What state do you associate with the birth of the American space program?  Did you say South Dakota?  I’ll tell…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/12Mar19-Lakota-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)There was a time when one’s heritage and culture was repressed in school.  As time passed, many places realized that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/03/11Mar19-Lakota-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)This museum tells of the heritage of a people…but one of the most striking things to me is the ability…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/21Feb19-Minuteman-Missle-National-Historic-Site-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)You can find plenty of silos in South Dakota, but there are only two of this type still around.  We’ll…